Dalhart, TX, United States
Heartland of Old XIT Ranch. Great Texas ranch of international fame. Payment made in an 1882 contract for the construction of granite capitol building in Austin. As contractors, some out-of-state investors (headed by the wealthy Chicago merchants, John V. and Senator C.B. Farwell) built the largest
state capitol in North America and received in payment 3,000,000-acres of land. The grant, 200 miles long and of varying widths (enclosed later by a 6,000-mile barbed wire fence), extended from near s
Listen to the audio guide for Black plaque № 15340 Free on WIP — starts by itself when you arrive, even with the screen off